The light in the maze is dim.
The main color of dark cyan is very depressing, and there is a suffocating atmosphere of terror in the air. The corridor was very quiet. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew through, bringing with it bursts of shrill cries like the groans of wronged souls, which echoed in the ears for a long time.
It seems as if the dark corridor ends at the intersection that leads to hell, making people tremble with fear every step they take.
Rusted swords and axes, broken clay pots, fragmented bones...these details all hint that there will be terrifying monsters here.
Ji Xun observed it and confirmed that the atmosphere of the maze was probably intentional.
This is a very clever psychological suggestion, which will invisibly affect the mentality of the intruder.
Just like if you turn off the sound while watching a horror movie, the scary atmosphere will immediately drop by 90%.
But he still doesn't know what the purpose of this setting is.
Ji Xun walked in the maze passage neither quickly nor slowly.
As he walked, he left some scratches on the wall.
The underground maze is completely sealed. If you don't know the correct way to move, you can only use traditional marking methods to keep testing.
But Ji Xun knew that if he continued to test like this, he would bump into a monster sooner or later, so he didn't dare to go too fast.
As he walked, he kept thinking about where the breaking point of this maze was.
Three hundred thousand workers were killed and turned into monsters, and the probability of encountering them was very high.
But perhaps it was the fierce battle elsewhere that attracted the attention of most of the monsters. He walked through several passages without encountering any danger.
I often see piles of bones in the corners.
I can't see why.
Ji Xun vaguely felt as if he was about to grasp something key.
But he was definitely not the only one who could think of avoiding the group of people in the Governor's Mansion.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard rapid footsteps behind him.
.......
"Captain, there are more and more skeletons..."
"Ignore these skeletons and leave! If the secret keeper catches our eye, we will be dead!"
"It's so terrifying. The [Keeper of Secrets] actually killed the Frost Knight with one move! Damn it, what happened? Isn't this a D-level space?"
"..."
As soon as the words came out, in a blink of an eye, three people were seen running over with panic on their faces as if they were being chased by some monster.
And in the empty corridor behind them, there was a dense sound of bone friction "clicking" and "clicking".
He couldn't avoid it and was hit hard.
Ji Xun took a closer look and saw that it was Captain Dong Jiu and two other colleagues who were collecting corpses.
But he didn't care who these three people were.
Instead, he was attracted by another bizarre scene.
As soon as the three people arrived, the bones that were just a mess in the corridor suddenly seemed to be awakened by some mysterious force. They stood up with a click and turned into a skeleton monster?
Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly, and thought softly in his heart: "Are these withered bones really monsters?"
As if a chain effect had been activated, the skeletons in the corridor stood up and turned into [Skeleton Craftsmen].
As soon as these undead creatures appeared, the entire corridor became gloomy in an instant.
Seeing this scene, Ji Xun not only did not feel scared, but an idea flashed in his mind.
He seemed to have captured something, and thought in his mind: "In this case, I seem to understand a little bit..."
.......
The three people who were running away in embarrassment were slightly surprised when they bumped into Ji Xun in the passage.
Isn’t this the new guy?
Sometimes, just by looking at each other, you can already tell that someone has evil intentions.
The three of them were running all the way, and the guy named Bucktooth had already touched the dagger on his waist with malicious intent.
Ji Xun was originally thinking about the awakening of skeletons. He caught a glimpse of the small movement and muttered: "Isn't it good to be alive..."
He also knew very well why the three people did this.
These guys are not stupid either. There are skeleton monsters everywhere now, and seeing them trapped is almost a dead end. Apparently they felt that a bait that could attract the hatred of monsters would keep them alive.
It's best to use bloody bait.
This method of luring monsters is often used by hunters in the wild.
Bucktooth drew the knife confidently, probably because he thought that with his second-level Katu strength, he could easily cut off Ji Xun's thigh in front of him?
However, at this moment, an unexpected scene appeared.
Ji Xunhuan's distracted eyes suddenly turned sharp, and he quickly drew his gun.
Almost at the same time that the cold light of the buck-tooth dagger suddenly appeared, the muzzle of a pitch-black gun was pressed against this guy's head like lightning.
With a gun pointed at his head, his buck-toothed expression instantly changed from contempt to absolute horror, and his pupils were infinitely dilated, filled with shock.
But this was the last scene in his life.
There was a "bang" sound.
Muffled thunderous gunshots exploded in the corridor.
Without any hesitation, Ji Xun pulled the trigger the moment he drew his gun.
Without taking a second glance at the guy with his head exploded in front of him, he quickly turned the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Captain Dong Jiu, who was a few meters ahead, and decisively pulled the trigger again.
He had no intention of killing, but if he did kill someone, he would show no mercy.
These three people are in the same group.
Now that we take action, we must kill quickly.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Fired twice.
In an instant, the bullet created two streams of air in the air.
Dongjiu kept glancing here from the corner of his eye, and was shocked when he saw Bucktooth's head blown off by a gunshot. When he saw that the muzzle of the gun was pointed at him, and the hair on his hair exploded, he instinctively stopped and turned sideways, and his fighting skills at his feet allowed him to make extreme dodge movements.
He is a card master's apprentice with the sixth level of spell power, and he still follows the "fighter" route. Both his nerve reaction speed and muscle explosion are several times that of ordinary people.
This extreme dodge also caused the two shots originally aimed at the chest to miss, and the other to hit the shoulder.
The bullet passed by.
Moreover, the physical toughness of extraordinary people is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and this shot did not cause much trauma.
"you...!"
Dongjiu looked at Ji Xun, who was holding a gun and aiming coldly at him, with an expression of extreme astonishment.
Is this really the cowardly newcomer in his team who doesn't even dare to say a word even though his salary has been deducted?
Without any time to think, Dong Jiu endured the severe pain in his shoulder and turned over violently and kicked the ground. His thigh muscles became knotted, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground with a "squeaking" sound. He was as fast as a cheetah and rushed towards Ji Xun. .
Extremely fast!
So what if I have a gun?
At such a close distance, firearms are not necessarily faster than fighting skills.
Ji Xun saw that Dong Jiu was not killed by two shots, and his expression did not change at all from the beginning to the end.
I have to admit that Dong Jiu is really not bad at strength.
He used the money he got from squeezing newcomers to buy a large amount of supplements. His physical fitness was much stronger than that of ordinary people, and his fighting skills were not bad either.
Ji Xun thought that he could not avoid the two shots just now.
Just because you have great power doesn't mean you can use it.
This is the difference in fighting skills.
But even if the gun was empty, no expression fluctuations could be seen on his expression.
He kept his eyes fixed on Dongjiu. After his arm stabilized the recoil of the previous shot, he decisively pulled the trigger again.
However, the third shot also failed.
This distance is no longer suitable for using a gun.
In the gap between shooting, Dongjiu lowered his body and rushed into Ji Xun's waist. He secretly rejoiced in his heart: "This guy is dead!"
Now that we are close, this is the ideal over-chest wrestling stance in close combat. As long as you use inertia to lock the opponent's waist, you can immediately turn over and throw him to the ground. The target's skull and vertebrae can be broken in an instant.
This move is a fatal move.
However, Dongjiu's happiness only lasted for a moment.
The next second, his expression changed drastically!
Instead of picking up the person as expected, Dongjiu felt as if he had hit a strong bull. He was shocked: This guy didn't move at all?
How can it be!
I have reached the sixth level of spell power, and I can definitely be considered a master among the card master's apprentices. My strength and explosive power are not bad. I am still an intermediate fighting expert, but I haven't hugged this newcomer?
Dongjiu also immediately realized: This newcomer is also a melee card master apprentice! And the power is stronger than myself!
But he couldn't understand why such a strong guy, whether he was a hunter or other income, was definitely better than being a corpse collector, so why did he become a corpse collector and pretend to be a weakling?
However, Ji Xun didn't give the enemy time to figure it out.
Seeing himself being hugged from the waist, he took a step back to stabilize his body, put the muzzle of the gun against Dongjiu's waist, and fired twice decisively.
A fall from this distance is fatal.
But guns are more deadly.
At least for these card master apprentices without magical protection, bullets can still easily penetrate muscles and bones.
Gunshots rang out, and blood surged instantly.
The bullet pierced the organs, and the color on Dongjiu's face quickly faded.
Ji Xun looked at Dong Jiu, who was slowly lying at his feet, still breathing, and shot him again in the head.
This time he was completely dead.
The body fell in a pool of blood.
...
Ji Xun killed two people in a row without even glancing at the corpses on the ground. He turned the gun again and aimed at the last living person in front.
Scary Liu was completely stunned, with only fear and disbelief in his eyes: Captain Dongjiu is dead?
He never expected that the usually obedient newcomer would be so ruthless and ruthless, killing two people without even shaking his hands?
The mangy Liu looked at the gun aimed at him, trembling with fear: "Brother... no, eldest brother... don't kill me!"
Ji Xun tilted his head and looked, but didn't pull the trigger, just stared coldly.
Pulling the trigger would only waste an extra bullet, but he didn't do that.
Leave one alive,
Just in time to verify my judgment just now.
.......
The killing was only a few breaths away, and at this time, the skeleton monster in the maze was gradually approaching.
These skeleton monsters are not very fast and their attack power is not strong. Only the combined attack of three or five small skeletons poses a fatal threat to ordinary people.
But the combat power is not enough, there are many.
In the blink of an eye, the corridor where the two of them were was filled with hundreds of white skeletons running around.
There are more and more to come.
Moreover, some of these monsters still hold worn-out axes, swords, and shields.
These weapons are tattered but equally deadly.
Seeing more and more bone-white skeleton monsters coming towards him, Scarlet Liu was so frightened that he lost his mind.
He wanted to escape.
But he was pointed at by a dark gun, and he didn't dare to run away.
But what the maniac Liu couldn't understand was that the newcomer who pointed the gun at him didn't even run away?
Don't you just want to use yourself as bait? Why don't you run away?
.......
Ji Xun didn't say a word, just raised his gun and quietly retreated to another fork in the road.
His experience at the [407 Abnormal Biological Research Institute] gave him a lot of experience and inspiration.
He now knows that abiding by the rules of space is the only reasonable way to pass the level.
Although the information that Qi Di got just now is not much, it is already obvious.
The keyword is: puzzle solving.
Three hundred thousand workers were trapped and killed in this maze, which meant that there were three hundred thousand skeleton monsters.
For a spell card master, these low-level skeleton monsters are indeed one punch at a time.
But there are 300,000 skeletons in this cemetery maze. Can you punch 300,000?
Besides, it sounds like there is a [Keeper of Secrets] who can kill the Frost Knight instantly.
Ji Xun doesn't think killing monsters is the right way to clear the level.
So, at this moment, he had to figure something out first.
For example, the hatred mechanism of monsters.
...
Ji Xun's eyes were always carefully observing the various body details of the skeleton monster.
Standing at the fork in the road is so that if you make a wrong judgment, you can retreat calmly.
Be prepared with both hands, and you can advance or retreat.
Ji Xun naturally has nothing to panic.
But the maniac Liu who was being robbed was already frightened to death, and his face was as pale as a sheet of paper from fear.
He also couldn't understand, the monster was already here, why didn't the guy on the other side run away?
At this moment, the skeleton monster was approaching within ten meters, and the sound of crunching bones making people's hair stand on end.
Scary Liu finally couldn't bear the fear of approaching death.
Either way, it’s death!
It's better to run away than to die!
This guy screamed "Ah" strangely, turned around and ran madly towards another passage, regardless of the gun pointed at him.
Immediately, a large number of skeleton monsters also pursued him.
Seeing the skeleton monsters coming like a tide, Ji Xun still didn't make any move.
He didn't shoot, didn't run away, kept his breathing as low as possible, and hid in a dark corner.
Because a bizarre scene is taking place.
As if they couldn't see the living people so close in the passage, those skeleton monsters all went after the escaped maniac Liu.
Seeing countless skeletons running in front of him, Ji Xun's eyes sparkled: "So that's it."
At this moment, he finally came to an accurate conclusion: the skeleton monster relies on fluctuations in sanity to capture its target. In other words, it is the San value in the concept of past lives!
...
When Ji Xun heard the Dongjiu trio talking about the skeleton monsters in the maze in the car, he had a doubt in his mind: Those skeletons were just skeletons, how did they sense and lock on to the target?
Generally, living things rely on various sensory organs to complete target perception, such as smell, temperature, vision, sound...
But skeletons have no organs.
Not even a brain.
This is a magical world, but that doesn't mean there is no basic logic.
Since the skeleton can sense living people, it must be caused by some objective factors.
I couldn't help it when I was alone just now, but I didn't expect to meet the Dongjiu trio.
Fortunately, I have the conditions for verification.
There were two corpses on the ground, their flesh and blood still very fresh.
There is temperature and smell.
But the skeleton monster was not interested at all.
This directly proves that flesh, smell, and temperature are not factors that attract the hatred of skeletons.
The range immediately became smaller.
And Ji Xun just left him alive just to rule out the last few possibilities.
In fact, when the three people first broke in, Ji Xun carefully observed the physical reactions of the skeletons and discovered abnormalities.
The moment the skeleton monster appeared from the corner of the corridor, almost all the skulls found the target, and the skulls all moved towards "looking".
This does not mean that their empty eye sockets really saw something. It is most likely an instinct left behind during their lifetime.
But you can judge the monster's hatred target from this.
Obviously, their attention was all on Dongjiu and the others, and they didn't see Ji Xun at all.
Only a few tall-framed [Elite Skeletons] noticed it and turned their heads to look over. But as soon as he put on the clown mask and suppressed his emotional fluctuations, the monster instantly lost its target.
Ji Xun thus eliminated the two ways of perception of the skeleton: soul and breath.
Not much is left.
They are two living people. The biggest difference is that one is full of fear, while Ji Xun has controlled his fear.
The fact was before his eyes, and the skeletons were chasing the frightened maniac Liu.
So we come to the final conclusion: the reduction of San value caused by fear is the most important inducement to attract skeleton monsters!
And when he thought about walking alone in the corridor before, those withered bones didn't wake up. At that time, Ji Xun didn't understand why.
Thinking about it now, it was just that from the first moment he entered the maze, his San value fluctuated very little, and it did not reach the critical value that aroused the hatred of monsters.
The environment of the maze no longer implies terror at all times, which is to make the sanity of the entrants fluctuate.
This had little impact on Ji Xun, who had discovered the abnormality long ago.
Figured this out.
The danger in the maze was immediately reduced by half.
This is the difficulty that the original [Cemetery Maze] should have when it was rated as a D-level space.
Ji Xun already saw hope of breaking the situation.
Of course, this does not include the [Secret Keeper] whom no one has ever seen.
